Lately, I’ve been thinking, “Why not grab some of this internet sponsorship cash?” And so we have taken on a sponsor – the Malodorous Rubber Mallet Co. I’ve agreed to use the company’s mallets in social media photos and will be impartially reviewing the mallet against all other mallets ever made in this dimension (and others) in the coming weeks.

All I can say at this point is that this mallet is so good that you can smell it coming. It offers the Perfume of Percussion. The Whiff of Whacking. The Bouquet of Beating.

I bought one too! I needed a big 4 pound dead blow, so bought the orange one at HF. I put it in the car, made a quick stop at another store, and when I returned, the car smelled to high heaven. I left that mallet outdoors for most of the winter, and the smell is finally gone.

What else can this mallet do? At a minimum it also has laser levels, right? A tool must have at least two or three functions to be useful. Also it should come painted in a very particular red, otherwise it just wouldn’t look right on my pegboard where all my other tools of that particular red reside.

What the heck kind of rubber mallets are you using? 🙂 I know the black deadblow mallets smell awful (I bought an orange one by tekton and it didn’t smell, neither did my friend’s really no-name orange one) no matter where you get them from.

But the white rubber mallets that Chris hates have never smelt in my experience. Do the black ones smell worse?

Malodorous Rubber Mallet was the first tool I ever loved! Apparently when I was <2 years old I learned to open the fridge, grab a can of beer, and walk around the house with it. My dad learned that if he kept an MRM near the couch he could trade me for the beer. Where do I sign up for the sticker and (hopefully odorless) t-shirt value pack?

If it REALLY did smell like a ferret, you could make a comfortable living in selling them for getting rid of rats and mice, who can’t stand the smell, largely because ferrets are natural predators of rodents. One ferret can be enough to clear a warehouse of rats in an hour or so, just don’t stand too close or you will be swarmed by panic stricken rodentia.